shawl
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Hindi शाल (śāl) and Urdu شال (śāl), from Persian شال (šâl).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
shawl (plural shawls)
- A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women. [from 1662]
- She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 60:
- Just then Norbourne entered the chamber; and, fancying from her attitude that his wife was asleep, he approached softly, and drew a large shawl around her.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
- 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 26:
- Jessamy turned. Her uplifted candle showed a dark handsome young women in a black dress. She wore a wide shawl over her head which hung down on either side, only partially hiding a starched, white apron..
- A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
a square piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders
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VerbEdit
shawl (third-person singular simple present shawls, present participle shawling, simple past and past participle shawled)
- (transitive) To wrap in a shawl.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
- Rebecca was shawling her in an upper apartment , where these two friends had an opportunity for a little of that secret talking and conspiring which forms the delight of female life
AnagramsEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle English schelen, from Old English sċylian, sċilian.
VerbEdit
shawl
- to shell
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Shawl a baanès.
- Shell the beans.
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 67